LimeSurvey vs SurveyJS

LimeSurvey is a survey creation service available online or as a self-hosted open-source option. It offers more than 30 customizable question types, branching logic, and media support, with surveys shareable through links, QR codes, social media, email, posters, and flyers. Free access includes more than 800 templates. The free plan provides 25 responses per month and one admin user; Basic costs $39 a month and includes unlimited surveys and questions, 1,000 responses per month, and 250 MB of upload storage. Expert costs $432 a year and includes 10,000 responses yearly, three admin users, and 1 GB of storage. LimeSurvey supports more than 80 languages and multilingual surveys, response analytics, API access, and exports to SPSS, R, Stata, CSV, Excel, and PDF. Hosting regions include EU and US options, and the product is available as self-hosted software. The service states GDPR compliance and WCAG 2.2 Level AA alignment; ISO 27001 is in progress. Support ranges from community and email options to priority email and VIP support. LimeSurvey is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

SurveyJS is a set of JavaScript components for building surveys, quizzes, polls, and web forms, then storing responses and displaying results. Its free, open-source Form Library renders JSON-based forms in React, Angular, Vue, and plain JavaScript applications. It supports more than 20 question types, conditional logic, validation, multilingual forms, and right-to-left languages. Survey Creator provides a drag-and-drop designer that generates JSON schemas. Dashboard displays results through interactive charts, tables, word clouds, and aggregated statistics; PDF Generator creates editable PDF forms and exports submissions. The libraries run in a customer’s application and can connect to any backend or database. SurveyJS says it does not access, process, or store survey data; customers choose and manage their own data storage and protections. React, Angular, and Vue have native support, while jQuery uses a wrapper over the Vanilla JavaScript version. The Form Library is free, but Survey Creator, Dashboard, and PDF Generator require commercial licenses for production use. Commercial developer licenses are required for each developer working with those product APIs or implementing integrations.